Annika Helendi

Annika Helendi is an experienced marketing professional and entrepreneur based in Tallinn, Estonia.1 She is currently a Fractional CMO, Growth Consultant, and SEO Strategist at astronaut.marketing, a role she has held since August 2011.1 Annika specializes in creating custom SEO-driven growth strategies for B2B SaaS startups in the $1-10M ARR range.1

With over a decade of experience in the startup world, Annika has a proven track record of helping companies grow:

• At Toggl, she generated 1.8 million signups over 4 years without a marketing budget.1
• As CEO of Teamweek, she turned the company profitable in 2 months and grew revenue by 100% to $700k ARR in 2017.1
• She co-founded and served as CMO for Dashbird, raising a seed round of $800k in 2018.1
• At ContentFly, she bootstrapped the company to $500k ARR in 2019.1

Annika is passionate about AI-powered businesses, AI-assisted marketing, and the no-code movement.1 She has been working with startups and scaleups since 2012 and has been fully remote since 2013.1 In April 2023, she founded Blessed Pirate, a service providing weekly LinkedIn posts to help experts build their personal brands.1

Annika holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and a Master's degree in Communication Management from the University of Tartu.1